Constructions and Language Change

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-3-11-019866-9
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, Band 194, 271 Seiten, HC runder Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 576 g

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Studies in diachronic linguistics increasingly acknowledge that linguistic change is highly context-dependent and somehow tied to constructions as linguistic units. This is the first volume to investigate the role of constructions and the potential of constructional approaches in linguistic change. The contributions in this volume comprise both theoretical and empirical studies, all of which are accessible for a general audience. While some contributions explicitly aim at comparing and unifying concepts from both traditional grammatical theories and recent construction grammar approaches, others offer detailed case studies of exemplary problems from a constructional point of view. The papers offer a cross-linguistic perspective and deal with a number of different language families, ranging from Germanic to Austronesian.

Zielgruppe

Libraries, Researchers and Advanced Students of Historical Lingui

Autoren/Hrsg.

Diewald, Gabriele

Bergs, Alexander

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Psycholinguistik, Neurolinguistik, Kognition
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie

Über Autor(innen)

Alexander Bergs, Osnabrück University, Germany; Gabriele Diewald, Hannover University, Germany.